Encyclopaedia Britannica Or A Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences

by Encyclopaedia Britannica

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First edition

London: Printed for John Donaldson, 1773. First London edition. This is an issue which uses the sheets of the first edition published in Edinburgh in 1771, with new preliminaries and a new preface made for the London audience. Three quarto volumes 10 1/4 x 8 inches; 260 x 204 mm . With 155 of 160 engraved copperplates, some of which are folding and some have been hand-colored. Some plates are bound out of sequence. Vol I

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